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Need mechanism to disable globbing

See original GitHub issue

Globbing support on Linux has caused us to have to revert to using bash scripts because we can’t pass parameters that contain * through to the executable. In this case, we are trying to invoke a C++ pkg manager called conan. It would be nice to have an option like set -o noglob in bash to disable globbing.

Steps to reproduce

Try to execute conan (or echoargs) with:

conan info --only "None" --package_filter 'PkgName/*' --cwd ../..

Note: I’ve tried quoting the arg and escaping the *. Neither works with conan.

Expected behavior

The PkgName/* gets passed through to conan,

Actual behavior

This generates an error:

Cannot find path '/home/hillr/code/dotnet/echoargs/bin/Debug/netcoreapp2.0/PkgName' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:1
+ dotnet ./echoargs.dll info --only "None" --package_filter PkgName/* - ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (/home/hillr/cod...eapp2.0/PkgName:String) [], ItemNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound

Environment data

> $PSVersionTable
Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      6.0.0-beta.8
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    v6.0.0-beta.8
OS                             Linux 4.4.0-43-Microsoft #1-Microsoft Wed Dec 31 14:42:53 PST 2014
Platform                       Unix
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Related issues: #3931 #4971 #4683 and PR #4489